Tag: SEO Quotient

On Day 8, Jessie and I started coding the report page for SEOQ. We figured that bootstrap HTML was the way to go as those websites are the most appealing to internet users, especially recently. The layout of the report began as three columns which each had a specific score. The first column would be … Continued

Day Eight: Today, after our daily stand-up, we went back to our rooms and started looking into the QScraper documentation that Jose sent us. After a little review, we called Jose on Google Hangout to ask him what he was up to, fill him in on our final algorithm plan, and also let him know … Continued

Today, Kunal and I started to work on the front-end css and html for how the SEOQ report would be generated and how it would look. We consulted with Jenny and Michael to discuss layouts, graphics, and colors. I’m excited about how the graphics are going to look (we’re going with a fishbowl-theme right now) … Continued

Hi there! Today at the Summer Internship Hackathon we had another quick meeting with Blake this morning to catch Farhan up with everything. I’m glad he’s back! We split the list of emails and blog websites up between the four of us to divide and conquer, with Blake taking the second connections on LinkedIn so he … Continued

Day 7 consisted of breaking down how the algorithm for the new SEOQ would work. There are many different variables that Google uses in order to determine the rankings of pages for each search. For example, the keyword phrases that appear in a URL, Page Title or Heading, all affect how good of a score … Continued

Day Seven: Today we continued from where we left off with prioritizing the parts of the algorithm we wanted to look at. We dove a lot deeper into actually laying out how that algorithm would be displayed and where we could retrieve that information. We fiddled with the weighting of some of the components that … Continued

Hello! Since last I blogged, we’ve got the ball rolling on our project–Balystic. Yesterday our SaaS team completed our first sprint, in which we implemented basic functionality of our community management tool. Users can now sign up on Balystic and verify their accounts through either email or SMS. It may not seem like much, but to … Continued

We began the new week with our daily standup meeting. Everyone was caught up to speed on the different teams’ progress over the past week. These meetings are very helpful to understand the goals of the whole team of interns, and to understand how we will achieve the next goals. Last week, I Essentially, when … Continued

Day Six: Today we had a standup reviewing what we got done last week and what we were going to attack this week. Pranav and I were going to create an Inception Deck but decided that we might need some help from the Traction Team, so Blake made the call to merge the two teams … Continued

Hi everyone! Today at Agileana I got some more work done on the traction for the SEO Quotient web app. Farhan, Blake, and I had a conversation at the end of the day last Friday, about emailing SEO pros. I drafted an email discussing the product, but once Blake and I read it over, we decided … Continued

Herndon, Virginia; Summer Internship Hackathon Day Four: We started off the day with another daily stand-up. After catching up on how all of the teams were doing, we broke off into our separate teams again. Pranav and I worked on finding more companies that produced competing SEO tools to SEOQ and writing up our research on … Continued

Herndon, Virginia; Summer Internship Hackathon Hi there everyone! Its Friday and boy did the first week here at Agileana go by fast! Out team actually started gaining some traction for the SEOQuotient product using Facebook. We invited all our Facebook friends to like the page and ended up going from 33 likes to 151. We did the same … Continued

Days three and four have changed in terms of the schedule that we have followed. Now that we have finished the house keeping issues, we have moved on to actually working on getting traction for the products we are making. On day three, the traction team spent time working on the identity of 7DHub … Continued

Hi everyone! Today in the Summer Internship Hackathon we started out with a Stand Up meeting and discussed what we did, what we are planning to do and any obstacles we had. I thought the meeting was a really good way to get caught up with everyone doing. We started working on the traction for … Continued